As first reported by Nick Camino of Cleveland’s WTAM 1110, the Indians have signed former top prospect Adam Miller to a minor league contract.

Miller, a right-handed pitcher with experience as a starter and reliever, was selected 31st overall by the Tribe in the 2003 MLB Amateur Draft and was rated as the Indians’ top prospect four years in a row (2004-2007) by Baseball America before flaming out due in large part to a nagging right hand injury.

Miller spent the 2013 season with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League, posting a 4.79 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, and 36/26 K/BB ratio in 62 innings (five starts and 31 relief appearances). The 29-year-old is doubtful to make it to the bigs.

Once upon a time Indians right-hander Adam Miller was an elite pitching prospect, ranking as high as 16th on Baseball America‘s annual list in 2005 and cracking BA‘s top 100 in five different years.

Unfortunately he’s missed all of the past two seasons while undergoing four different surgeries on his right middle finger and Miller is now simply trying to get back on the Indians’ radar at age 26, with MLB.com’s Anthony Castrovince writing that he was clocked as high as 94 miles per hour in a recent instructional league appearance.

If he can avoid another setback Castrovince speculates that Miller will be invited to the Indians’ big league camp in spring training and could even claim a spot on the Opening Day roster. He last pitched at Double-A in 2008, but the former first-round pick posted excellent numbers prior to the finger problems derailing his career and is definitely someone to root for.